Article of manufacture



C. W. BUBLITZ.

ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. 1916.

Patentefl May 13, 1919.

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ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES WM. BUIBLITZ, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK OSANN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

' ARTICLE or vmnorno'ronn.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WM. BUBLrrz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond Hill, Queens county,

State of New York, have invented a new; and Improved Article of Manufacture, of

which the following is a specification, reference being had to the aoompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention has reference to an improved article of manufacture consisting of two elements attached together in whole or in part for temporary use whereby the release of the attached part or element is facilitated. i

The object of the invention is to provide an article of manufacture in which two individual members or two parts of the same member attached together by sewing stitches are adapted to be unraveled or released by operating thereon at a particular stitch or point in such sewing and having means to indicate the particular stitch or point at which the releasing operation, preferably should begin.

Another object of the invention is to provide as a new article of manufacture an article and a tag or ticket attached to said article by chain stitches and havinga stitch or device differentiating from said attaching stitches to indicate the point at which action may be begun to efl'ect most readily the release of said attaching stitches.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in an article of manufacture having the series of stitches and the indicating means.

The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combination of parts as shall hereinafter be more.

vention in which the indicator is other than a part of the attaching thread.

In the manufacture of garments or other articles in which two or more pieces of material or two members of one piece of material are attached together by sewing stitches it is often desirable that such mem bers or pieces be separated'o-r detached from one another for the purpose of readjustment, refitting or for many other purposes. In the matter of attaching laundry tags, price tickets and other devices to garments or articles it is particularly desirable that said tags, tickets or devices should be so attached that they may be held securely in place temporarily but may readily be detached when desired. I am of course aware that, heretofore, the purpose of attaching pieces or parts of material together has been with the view of rendering such attachment permanent and that the sewing of a seam or of a group of stitches adapted to be easily unraveled or disengaged has been an objection.

In carrying my invention into practice I have found that the temporary attachment of a large variety of articles or parts of the same article is desirable and T find that such purpose is accomplished in a particularly desirable manner, mechanically, by the use of the well known single thread sewing machine adapted to form a succession of chain stitches from said single thread in such manner that said stitches may easily be unraveled, if a suitable pull is exerted on the right stitch. As, however, both ends of the seam or group of stitches sewn by such machine are of similar appearance it is dificult to distinguish the particular stitch on which initial action should be made. When the seam or group of stitches is continuous as in describing a rectangle, triangle or circle the difficulty of selecting the right stitch is increased.

As illustrating my present invention in its preferred form I have shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, respectively obverse and reverse views of an article of manufacture comprising a piece of fabric a and a tag or ticket Z) attached together by the series of attaching chain stitches 6, 6 which outline a triangle. The starting point 7 of this series of stitches 6, 6 preferably would be in line with the finishing point 8 if a continuous line of said stitches is sewn. In order however to distinguish between the starting point or stitch and the finishing point or stitch I supply the latter with an indicator of some kind which, in Figs. 1 and 2, is shown as the additional stitch 9 disposed in such position relative to the line of sewing as to attract attention. The end of the thread forming stitch 9 extends through the work and through the last previously formed loop so that by engaging said stitch 9 at the face of the work and drawing its end out of said loop, said loop is released from said end and, by pulling onsaid end, the thread constituting said stitches 6,6 can be drawn out, unraveled or released whereby the tag, ticket or article 6 becomes detached from the material a.

In Fig. 3 the ticket or article I) is illustrated as attached to material a by straight lines of stitches 10, 10 or 11, 11. In the line of stitches 10, 10 the finish end is indicated by the return stitch 12 and the outward stitch 13, while 'in the line of stitches 11, 11 the finish end is indicated by the outwardly extending stitch 14.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have shown a piece of material 0 folded upon itself and having its members secured together by a line of stitches 10, 10 having at the finish end the return stitch 12 and the indicator stitch 13 extending from said line of stitches 10, 10 to attract attention.-

In Fig. 5 of the drawings the parts a and b are shown as attached together by a line of stitches 15, 15, the finish end of said series of stitches terminating at the indicator 16 which may be formed in part with or printed upon one of the parts a or b or may be attached in place by one of said stitches.

It is not my intention to limit this invention to any particular kind of sewing stitches or to the use of a single thread as any number of threads or land of stitches can be used provided that the result be of such nature that the detachment of the parts may be effected by drawing on a thread at a particular part of the work and that such part of the work be indicated. Nor is it my intention to limit this invention except as herein claimed.

Having thus described my invention I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An article of manufacture comprising two members, a group of stitches temporarily to attach said members and adapted to be released by action on a thread of one of said stitches, and a releasing indicating stitch extending at an angle from one of said attaching stitches.

2. An article 'of manufacture comprising two members temporarily attached together by a group of chain stitches defining a geometrical outline and adapted to be released by action on thread of a particular stitch, said latter stitch extending away from the line of its next adjacent stitch.

CHARLES WM. BUBLITZ. 

